Pellucid means admitting maximum passage of light, or clear and easy to understand.
Pellucid means admitting maximum passage of light, or clear and easy to understand.
| Front | pellucid \puh-LOO-sid\ |
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| Back | adjective 1. Admitting the maximum passage of light. 2. Clear; easy to understand. [From Latin pellucidus, from perlucere (to shine through), from per- (through) + lucere (to shine). Ultimately from the Indo-European root leuk- (light) that is also the source of other words such as lunar, lunatic, light, lucubrate, lightning, lucid, illuminate, illustrate, translucent, lux, and lynx.] "Their [Dorothy Wordsworth's journals'] style, at times pellucid, at times opaque, lies somewhere between the rapture of a love letter and the portentousness of a thriller." - Frances Wilson; The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 2008. |
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